Best photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise
Award Year: 1987
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal 1987
Recipient: Janet Knott
Affiliation: The Boston Globe
Honored Work: Democracy: “What Price?”
Knott won the Capa Gold Medal for her coverage of the elections in Haiti. In the street fighting and violence, gunfire came at unexpected times and places. Many citizens were shot, some killed. Photographers were special targets of the police and military; many were arrested, some had their film confiscated. In this setting Knott captured on film the bloodshed, murder and violence in the Haitian capital and surrounding countryside.
Citations for Excellence:
Phillip Davies, Viorel Florescu and Jeffrey Salter
Newsday
“Haiti’s Election: Only Death Counted?”
ltsuo Inouye
The Associated Press
“Street Riots, Seoul, Korea”